yeah, but that's why i said corporate desktops. they'll mostly be used in a static configuration and very rarely would be keyboard or mouse be removed and reinserted. when they are, it would be by IT.
the logging issue is interesting, i guess, but using usb for that reason would be "security by obscurity" and bruce schneier would come down and rape your children to death.
also, why is it impossible to make a completely transparent usb 'logger'? at worst, can't you just sample the voltages and then do protocol analysis (or whatever you would call it) on the stream? i really have no idea but it seems plausible, just more difficult, though someone only has to build the database.
eh, they're not that hard to read. doing all of the problems would be another story (especially the ones that are open research questions...:-/), but for the content the presentation is amazingly straightforward (this is the real accomplishment of Knuth). i casually read vol. 1 and did ~25% of the problems one summer with a friend.
wait, was your ass stuffed with a cheap dildo, or a genuine audiophile cock? a lot of people these days settle for the former, but the acoustic properties of an uncircumcised penis cannot be understated, especially if you're using cheap unbalanced power cables or find yourself in a room without ceramic ambient field conditioning discs, as often happens on business trips. lesser people may have different opinions, but i find the services of a qualified escort to be indispensable. unlike the rest of the elite field audiophilia, there is no exact science about this, but in my experience you want to spend in the $200/hr. range at least, and always fit for breadth. don't be afraid to turn down someone inadequate, they'll usually understand.
uh, yes they do. i put "sort" in quotes, because what i meant was putting your finger on the "T" tab for people whose names start with "T" and so on. there's no obviously good reason to do this in a UI. of course it works but it would be an amazing coincidence indeed if it were the best solution. remember how winamp had both a stop button and a pause button, even though there's no difference between the two when you're playing mp3s.
after that, i lost track of what the hell you're blithering about, but it sounds like you're complaining about a particular implementation. i don't care. i am not defending that implementation.
Yes, it is the first question I asked. I don't know the answer and would welcome an analysis (as opposed to knee-jerk "save the world by just doing a better job!" nonsense). Hint: an analysis will include a cost/benefit analysis at the very least, and other quantitative arguments. I won't hold my breath.
Why would I care about a programmer's opinion about saving money? I'd rather ask the janitor, at least he is less biased.
Local? What local? You can save a bunch of money by not having so many redundant management locations, and frankly they probably should.
Likewise, they could build a parallel control network with security and reliability in mind but again you can save a bunch of money by just using the internet.
Your tuppence of advice is to incur major expense for inadequate reason. That's why no one listens to it.
skeuomorphism is dumb because design elements intended for, say, "sorting" a book by putting your finger in the right notch should never be used in an app.
yes, it is even more dumb to use giant 72 pt. text instead, but that doesn't make skeuomorphism a good idea.
Yeah, Thinkpads are still black rectangular prisms with hinged screens. Apart from that, they've changed a lot design- and aesthetics-wise, and almost exclusively for the worse, while keeping their drawbacks (e.g. dim unevenly-lit screens).
I just checked: you can't even get a Thinkpad with the original keyboard anymore.
I rescind my earlier comment. Thinkpad is dead; thanks, Lenovo. If you want a decently-designed laptop, there is unfortunately no alternative to the MacBook Pro. I wish that someone would compete in this segment, so that I could stop giving my money to those sons of bitches at Apple.
Unfortunately for you, imperialism is defined as "a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force."
Now, to the layman this poses no cuntradiction against your erudite proposal. However, the educated Marxist will not allow to pass your blatant speciesism. While the "Native" "Americans" are clearly irrelevant Redskin savages, as even the most niggardly capitalists/Hayek-ists will admit, we cannot allow to pass unchallenged and critically unexamined the acts of this Dawin, whomever he may be. The problematics of speciesist endemicism plague your narrative and thus we cannot accept it as true scholasticism by any means. The Hegelian dialectic calls for a synthesis of the suppressed testudinate (socialist) impulse with the anglo-imperialist rapist. Whenceforth We (The Glorious Peoples' Sodomitic/Recidivist Council) request only that you open your anus to inspection and purification against unnecessary thematic influences.
Your business acumen is simply dazzling. A "market" of at most ~$500 a year, for the sake of which you might earn the ire of your professor. Wow. Such Profit.
Odd. I wouldn't think that $5 (or whatever) per person would be adequate compensation for looking like a complete toolbag. It certainly wouldn't be enough for me.
This is what always surprises and saddens me about venality and corruption: not the unfortunate existence of it, but the pathetically low rates involved. If a pharma company wanted me to pass a law to let them sell poison as medicine, I'd ask a hell of a lot more than $10k.
I think of myself as a very honest person but maybe it's just because no one has made a sufficiently lucrative offer yet.;-)
A 10% cut of what exactly? The professors don't actually buy the books themselves.
And the economics of paying for a Hawaiian vacation to promote textbooks is just silly. How about a free car if you buy a Snickers bar instead of an Almond Joy?
No, the primary pressures influencing textbook decisions are laziness and "tradition"/perceived quality. A friend of mine got chewed out by his physics department for choosing a $10 Dover book on E&M instead of the $150 standard one. Meh.
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yeah, but that's why i said corporate desktops. they'll mostly be used in a static configuration and very rarely would be keyboard or mouse be removed and reinserted. when they are, it would be by IT.
the logging issue is interesting, i guess, but using usb for that reason would be "security by obscurity" and bruce schneier would come down and rape your children to death.
also, why is it impossible to make a completely transparent usb 'logger'? at worst, can't you just sample the voltages and then do protocol analysis (or whatever you would call it) on the stream? i really have no idea but it seems plausible, just more difficult, though someone only has to build the database.
eh, they're not that hard to read. doing all of the problems would be another story (especially the ones that are open research questions... :-/), but for the content the presentation is amazingly straightforward (this is the real accomplishment of Knuth). i casually read vol. 1 and did ~25% of the problems one summer with a friend.
that linked story is hilarious, though.
wait, was your ass stuffed with a cheap dildo, or a genuine audiophile cock? a lot of people these days settle for the former, but the acoustic properties of an uncircumcised penis cannot be understated, especially if you're using cheap unbalanced power cables or find yourself in a room without ceramic ambient field conditioning discs, as often happens on business trips. lesser people may have different opinions, but i find the services of a qualified escort to be indispensable. unlike the rest of the elite field audiophilia, there is no exact science about this, but in my experience you want to spend in the $200/hr. range at least, and always fit for breadth. don't be afraid to turn down someone inadequate, they'll usually understand.
it's not so important to lock fown the mp3s.
looks like your post got fucked; i guess you didn't set the read-only flag.
for corporate desktops, there is absolutely nothing wrong with a ps/2 connector, so why not use them?
Yes, if you like.
yeah, so?
uh, yes they do. i put "sort" in quotes, because what i meant was putting your finger on the "T" tab for people whose names start with "T" and so on. there's no obviously good reason to do this in a UI. of course it works but it would be an amazing coincidence indeed if it were the best solution. remember how winamp had both a stop button and a pause button, even though there's no difference between the two when you're playing mp3s.
after that, i lost track of what the hell you're blithering about, but it sounds like you're complaining about a particular implementation. i don't care. i am not defending that implementation.
Yes, it is the first question I asked. I don't know the answer and would welcome an analysis (as opposed to knee-jerk "save the world by just doing a better job!" nonsense). Hint: an analysis will include a cost/benefit analysis at the very least, and other quantitative arguments. I won't hold my breath.
Why would I care about a programmer's opinion about saving money? I'd rather ask the janitor, at least he is less biased.
There's your dissenting commentary.
Local? What local? You can save a bunch of money by not having so many redundant management locations, and frankly they probably should.
Likewise, they could build a parallel control network with security and reliability in mind but again you can save a bunch of money by just using the internet.
Your tuppence of advice is to incur major expense for inadequate reason. That's why no one listens to it.
Well, familiarity with the geography of the USA is at least tangentially related to governance.
So true. But "small government" means to only allow the corporations to the negotiations.
Yes.
skeuomorphism is dumb because design elements intended for, say, "sorting" a book by putting your finger in the right notch should never be used in an app.
yes, it is even more dumb to use giant 72 pt. text instead, but that doesn't make skeuomorphism a good idea.
Ownership is freedom. Markets are all about owning both things and people. Freedom. Markets. Free Markets.
Do you get that yet, you fucking commie?
Yeah, Thinkpads are still black rectangular prisms with hinged screens. Apart from that, they've changed a lot design- and aesthetics-wise, and almost exclusively for the worse, while keeping their drawbacks (e.g. dim unevenly-lit screens).
I just checked: you can't even get a Thinkpad with the original keyboard anymore.
I rescind my earlier comment. Thinkpad is dead; thanks, Lenovo. If you want a decently-designed laptop, there is unfortunately no alternative to the MacBook Pro. I wish that someone would compete in this segment, so that I could stop giving my money to those sons of bitches at Apple.
Unfortunately for you, imperialism is defined as "a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force."
Now, to the layman this poses no cuntradiction against your erudite proposal. However, the educated Marxist will not allow to pass your blatant speciesism. While the "Native" "Americans" are clearly irrelevant Redskin savages, as even the most niggardly capitalists/Hayek-ists will admit, we cannot allow to pass unchallenged and critically unexamined the acts of this Dawin, whomever he may be. The problematics of speciesist endemicism plague your narrative and thus we cannot accept it as true scholasticism by any means. The Hegelian dialectic calls for a synthesis of the suppressed testudinate (socialist) impulse with the anglo-imperialist rapist. Whenceforth We (The Glorious Peoples' Sodomitic/Recidivist Council) request only that you open your anus to inspection and purification against unnecessary thematic influences.
i would like to reply to you as thoughtfully as i could, since you raise an important point.
so, could you tell me for my own edification, are you a nigger or a faggot?
this is really important for me to compose a reply, you see.
it's always the fucking niggers, amirite?!?!?!
fuck them. if they mattered to humanity (the dominant species), the free market would have done something to save them.
this counts for the commie "scientists" too.
Your business acumen is simply dazzling. A "market" of at most ~$500 a year, for the sake of which you might earn the ire of your professor. Wow. Such Profit.
Odd. I wouldn't think that $5 (or whatever) per person would be adequate compensation for looking like a complete toolbag. It certainly wouldn't be enough for me.
This is what always surprises and saddens me about venality and corruption: not the unfortunate existence of it, but the pathetically low rates involved. If a pharma company wanted me to pass a law to let them sell poison as medicine, I'd ask a hell of a lot more than $10k.
I think of myself as a very honest person but maybe it's just because no one has made a sufficiently lucrative offer yet. ;-)
Sure, if your time is worthless, that's a great solution.
A 10% cut of what exactly? The professors don't actually buy the books themselves.
And the economics of paying for a Hawaiian vacation to promote textbooks is just silly. How about a free car if you buy a Snickers bar instead of an Almond Joy?
No, the primary pressures influencing textbook decisions are laziness and "tradition"/perceived quality. A friend of mine got chewed out by his physics department for choosing a $10 Dover book on E&M instead of the $150 standard one. Meh.
normative morality is bullshit.